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Administering Openclaw - OpenClaw Tutorial
From the course: Build Agents with OpenClaw
Administering Openclaw
Once installed, there's a couple of different ways you can work with OpenClaw. And one of the most important for power users is the terminal application. OpenClaw is available via the OpenClaw command. Let's run the help option to take a look at everything that's available. You can see the list of commands as well as some examples of what you can do and where you can find the documentation on the website. Out of all these commands, one of the most important ones is what we call the gateway. This runs a local server that is responsible for routing messages between agents, skills, and the CLI. Everything is connected to this gateway. So if that gateway is not running, then nothing will be working. If for some reason your bot isn't responding, then you should run a open claw gateway status command. This will show you the health of the the gateway. If it's not running, you can use the gateway install command. You only need to do this one time. It'll keep running in the background. You can…